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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the digitalisation of employment services in the UK and Australia, countries that have been on similar policy trajectories with respect to the development of quasi‐markets and increased digitalisation. The article deploys comparative mixed methods comprising surveys of employment service providers and interviews with ...
Jo Ingold, Chris Forde, David Robertshaw
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The polarizing impact of numeracy, economic literacy, and science literacy on attitudes toward immigration [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Political orientation polarizes the attitudes of more educated individuals on controversial issues. A highly controversial issue in Europe is immigration. We found the same polarizing pattern for opinion toward immigration in a representative sample of citizens of a southern European middle-size city.
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Digital Literacy and Reading Habits of The DMI-St. Eugene University Students [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Digital literacy is the skill of finding, evaluating, consuming, and generating information using digital technologies. The study attempted to comprehend university students' digital reading habits and skills. It also provides a glimpse of the pupils' favorite reading materials, including physical and digital sources.
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Institutionalizing Information Literacy
The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012 Abstract There is increasing recognition that information literacy is essential for individual and community empowerment, workforce readiness, and global competitiveness. However, there is a history of difficulty in integrating information literacy with the postsecondary educational process.
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Digital welfare‐to‐work in the global south: A case of Indonesian pre‐employment card program
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract The worldwide movement toward digitisation in public service delivery presents a range of opportunities and risks. The potential benefits include improved efficiency, more consistent service delivery decisions and enhanced responsiveness to citizens' demand.
Phuc Nguyen +3 more
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Toward Improving Health Literacy in Patient Education Materials with Neural Machine Translation Models [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Health literacy is the central focus of Healthy People 2030, the fifth iteration of the U.S. national goals and objectives. People with low health literacy usually have trouble understanding health information, following post-visit instructions, and using prescriptions, which results in worse health outcomes and serious health disparities.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the animating ethos of digital unemployment services. Unlike human‐to‐human services, where the intention of policy is normally mediated by professionals, digital services are fully designed in the policy imagination. As a result, it is a pressing issue to understand the ethos that animates their development.
Ray Griffin +2 more
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Locating Information Literacy within Institutional Oppression
In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 2014 Editor’s note: On July 16th, 2014 we published Open Source Outline: Locating the Library within Institutional Oppression, where we discussed nina de jesus’s Outline for a Paper I Probably Won’t Write and called for authors to use her open source outline ...
Joshua Beatty
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Information Literacy and Digital Literacy: Competing or Complementary?
Communications in Information Literacy, 2013 Digital Literacy is a more recent term than Information Literacy and is used for multiple categories of library users in multiple types of libraries.
Rosanne Marie Cordell
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.Abstract Out‐of‐home care is associated with a range of negative social outcomes for the young people who experience it. The most promising path to improved life chances for care‐experienced young people is arguably through education, especially post‐secondary education.
Naomi Tootell, Andrew Harvey
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